31/ At this point, it's too early to share anything concrete because I have a lot more reading to do to test and harden some of these ideas. It's a very fuzzy picture I'm just beginning to explore. But there's something weird going on here.
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
Quantum mechanics says that minds influence the world by just observing it. Could it be that mind, consciousness, belief are a fundamental part of the universal fabric?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
thats not how quantum physics works at all "observation" is a thing random atoms do, it is done whenever any two things interact it has to do with probability amplitudes and interference effects and nothing to do with consciousness
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Replying to @imhinesmi @liminal_warmth
By the wave functions all possible quantum branches manifest, but we only see one right now. Why is that and why is this the one we see?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
complicated math reasons i dont understand particularly well but theres also the many worlds interpretation: we do, in fact, see all outcomes, but not in the same branch of reality
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Replying to @imhinesmi @liminal_warmth
Right, and there’s branches of the many worlds in which I suddenly explode or water turns to wine or an elephant appears in my living room. Wouldn’t that be magical if it happened?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
those do not, in fact, happen, because they are physically impossible some highly-improbable events do happen, but dont expect to see anything below 10^-10 probability on a per-second basis to happen in your lifetime the events you listed are easily <10^-1000
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Any particular outcome is actually a measure 0 subset of a measure 1 set, making it equally improbable as anything else.
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
we have ways of calculating the sum of infinitely many numbers of ~0 magnitude, its called calculus the sum of events where we dont spontaneously explode is ~1
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i can tell because i have never seen anyone spontaneously explode you should not be getting weird macro-scale effects from quantum physics, because quantum physics, scaled to human size, is normal physics
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Replying to @imhinesmi @jack_meditates
I actually agree with this--to the degree that magic can influence reality (assuming it can) things that are not already somewhat plausible are orders of magnitude harder to produce via focused technique Thus, evidence based probability manipulation
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